Space For Cycling – Fulham Reach

Our ask in the Fulham Reach ward of Hammersmith and Fulham proposes:

Safe prioritised junctions over Fulham Palace Road

Fulham Palace Road is regularly congested and presents only intermittent space for cycling. To enable better use of the existing parallel quiet route improved junctions should provide clear space to enable cyclists to reach this route, thus enabling journeys to change and relieve congestion for all. This would also reduce severance for pedestrians if accompanied with changes in the prioritisation of lights.

Supporting statistics for this proposal

For each of the wards we have combined a series of local statistics on traffic, the use of the local area and air quality to give an idea of the current situations in numerical terms. Each of these are presented in standard tables, followed by some commentary. We’ve attempted to summarise statistics in years between elections, which means the latest statistics are only for three years rather than four (highlighted by a *).

KSI by mode

2010-12*

2006-09

2002-05

Cycle

3

5

0

Pedestrian

5

12

10

Vehicle

10

18

17

KSI is the sum of deaths and serious injuries from collisions. In this ward figures are intriguing. In 02-05 when there was likely less cycling there were 0 cycling KSIs. These have grown to 5 in the following period, but 3 in recent years. Pedestrian KSIs show a more encouraging trend and worryingly this ward shows one of the higher rates for vehicular KSIs. Our wider desire for 20mph zones present a good simple opportunity to tackle this rate for all road users.

Traffic by Mode

2010-12

2006-09

2002-05

Cycle

153

149

100

P2W

91

100

100

Car

91

99

100

Vans

87

101

100

Bus

117

108

100

MGV

81

78

100

HGV

83

100

100

Motors

92

99

100

There are 2 DfT count points in this ward. Taking 2002-05 as a base of 100, it is clear that cycling increased during the 06-09 period and has held steady. Car use is declining somewhat, as are other motor vehicles.

There are 4 schools in this ward with a total of 1430 pupils.

Air Quality (ug/m3 annual mean)

2008

2011

2015 Target

2011 achieved

PM10

19.99

19.06

-31%

-5%

NOx

72.18

61.12

-35%

-15%

NO2

41.38

37.53

N/A

-9%

Air quality in this ward has come inside the EU limit for NO2 (40 ug/m3) in recent years but only just. Reductions in PM10 by 2011 make reaching the 2015 target doubtful.

Census

2011

2001

Change

Cars/Vans

2522

3016

-494

Cars/Vans per 1000 people

266

367

-101

Households

4941

4500

441

with no access to car/van

2856

2135

721

%

58%

47%

10%

In the most recent census we can see that there has been a decline of 494 in cars and vans owned in this ward. 58% of households have no access to a car or van.

Journey to Work

2011

2001

Change

Residents counted

9470

8214

+1256 (+15%)

Not employed

3016 (31.8%)

2838 (34.6%)

+178 (+6%)

Homeworker

555 (5.9%)

416 (5.1%)

+139 (+33%)

Commuting residents

5899 (62.3%)

4960 (60.4%)

+939 (+19%)

Bicycle

497 (8.4%)

248 (5%)

+249 (+100%)

On foot

978 (16.6%)

868 (17.5%)

+110 (+13%)

Motorbike/moped

111 (1.9%)

91 (1.8%)

+20 (+22%)

Car/van driver

661 (11.2%)

901 (18.2%)

-240 (-27%)

Car/van passenger

36 (0.6%)

53 (1.1%)

-17 (-32%)

Tube

2518 (42.7%)

1970 (39.7%)

+548 (+28%)

Train

203 (3.4%)

187 (3.8%)

+16 (+9%)

Bus

846 (14.3%)

588 (11.9%)

+258 (+44%)

Taxi

19 (0.3%)

27 (0.5%)

-8 (-30%)

Other

30 (0.5%)

27 (0.5%)

+3 (+11%)

The census shows striking changes in car use again with 27% fewer residents commuting by car. The greatest percentage increase has been in cycling but still only 497 residents commute by bicycle.

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We are the local branch of the London Cycle Campaign (LCC) for the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. We also cover Shepherd's Bush but that's not part of the name of our borough, a fuller guide to where we cover is here.